I have very recently accepted something about my children and it has set. me. free.

GONE are the days of fooling myself into believing that THIS TIME I can get all three of them into a nice picture, that I will not walk away frazzled and ready for a good cry. GONE are the days of hoping and praying for magic to happen, for the kids to become other people while I step behind the camera. NO MORE!! I have wasted enough time with that silliness! What was I thinking? did I not know my own precious children??

Obviously I was delusional. Its ok though, because i recognize that now and have made great progress. I have a solution to the woes of photographing my own little crew. It is so simple and was right here in my face all along! the trick??

Don’t attempt to photograph them all together. I can get great stuff when I am one on one or two on one (any combo of two, just not all three)

Why I have never taken Quin out with Willow baffles me. I have taken the girls out together countless times, it seemed so obvious and necessary.

WHY didn’t I see what was right in front of me? the glorious relationship that is big brother and littlest sister. They are a pair together, the cutest pair.

I found a new possible location in town while out riding bikes with Quin a few weeks back and wanted to test it out before taking an actual client, so off we went with just Quin and Willow….not only do I love the location but…these two?? yeah, we will do this again.

and again and again and again.

**I will of course attempt shooting all three at once again and again as well, but not to the point of upset and stress**

“Please pleeeeease, will you just look at me with your eyeballs for a second?!”

got what I asked for so how can I complain?